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Wednesday concert to feature pianist Weinstein
“One Piano, Four Hands: New Friends, Part 3” is this week’s program in the Greencastle Summer Music Festival, which presents multi-genre concerts performed by world-class professional musicians every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Gobin Church.
The indoor concerts are presented without admission charge, funded by gifts from individual donors, an endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation, and businesses including the Doc’s Inn and the Inn at DePauw.
This week, pianist Tony Weinstein performs Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” one of the most celebrated and accessible works in the classical music repertoire, and is then joined by his wife Tatiana Lokhina for Anton Rubenstein’s romantically exciting sonata for “four hands” (two pianists at one piano.) This is their first GSMF performance.
“Tony was on the DePauw School of Music faculty and collaborative piano staff for many years,” said Eric Edberg, the GSMF founding director who himself was a music professor at DPU for more than 30 years. “But this is the first time it has worked out to have him perform for us. We celebrate community and friendship as well as music, hence our motto ‘friends making music for friends.’ And so we are happy to welcome Tony and Tatiana as ‘new friends’ in the GSMF community.”
The GSMF continues next week on July 5 with a collaboration between pianist Claude Cymerman and singer-songwriter Bobbie Lancaster, with a post-Independence Day celebration of traditional American songs as well as the music of the great Black American composer Florence Price, whose Romantic-style works have been rediscovered and are becoming increasingly popular.
Weinstein, visiting professor at the Oberlin Conservatory, earned two bachelor’s degrees in Oberlin’s Double Degree Program — a B.M. in piano performance and a B.A. in pure mathematics with honors. He was then awarded three degrees at degrees by the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University — a Master of Music, performance diploma and Doctor of Music with distinction.
He is co-director for artistic affairs for the Summer Piano Academy at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Weinstein was the organizing force behind DePauw’s BrahmsFest, a multi-year exploration of the chamber and solo piano works of Johannes Brahms.
Lokhina was born in Moscow, Russia, into a musical family. She began her formal training at age seven and gave her first solo recital in Moscow four years later. Lokhina is a winner of numerous Russian and international prizes. She has performed at the Moscow State Conservatory, Paul Dukas Conservatory in Paris, and the Musikhochschule Hamburg and appeared in concerts in Italy, Austria, Germany and the U.S.
As a solo pianist, Lokhina attended Moscow Ippolitov-Ivanov Music Institute and Musikhochschule Hamburg. She earned a master’s degree in collaborative piano from Lynn University and is working toward a DM in collaborative piano at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.
Lokhina recorded the unpublished works of Beethoven for violin and piano for Naxos, made an album of songs by women composers with soprano Chloe Boelter, and was featured as the harpsichordist in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s DeHaan Virtual Baroque Series.